What are the risks of a dynamic contract?
You carry the market price risk yourself. If prices rise, as in the energy crisis, you pay more straight away. In winter and on cold evenings electricity is often more expensive. On the other hand, you can benefit from cheap hours and can usually cancel monthly.
Price spikes
For a few hours a year the market price can be very high. If you use a lot then, for example a heat pump on a cold evening, you pay for it. Usage you can shift, you can postpone during those hours.
Uncertain future
Nobody knows how market prices will develop. The calculator uses the real hourly prices of the past year and adjusts them with the expected price development. That is an estimate, not a forecast.
Limiting the risk
A dynamic contract can usually be cancelled monthly, without a penalty. Check your usage per month in the supplier's app, and compare again with a fixed contract from time to time.
Compare fixed and dynamic for your usage
An estimate, not personal advice. How the calculator works: How does this calculator work?
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